Device for holding hayracks



W. E. CRAWFORD.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING HAYRACKS.

APPLICATION FILED Auma. ma.

Patented Aug. 10; 1920.

WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD, or CHAPIN, IOWA.

w DEVICE FOR HOLDING I AYIaAcKsQ To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. -CRAW+ rono, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chapin, in the county of Franklin and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Holding Hayraoks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. r

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in attachments to wagons for I holding hay racks from sliding back and forth, and consists of a simple and efficient device of this nature which will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and then specifically defined in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings which, with the letters of reference "marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which: I

Figure 1 is aperspective view of the device of my invention, showing thefapplication thereof to a wagon; I

Fig. 2 is a View in end elevation of the Y device of my invention, the frame member of the wagon on which said device is secured, being shown in section;

Fig. 3 is a detached detail viewin perspective of one of the members of my device, and

Fig. l is'a'detached detail view in perspective of one of the braces. I

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter: I

A designates a plate of malleable iron, or

other suitable material, having portions bent parallel to each other and adapted to fit over the side piece B of the frame of awagon, and D are bolts passing through registering apertures inthe plate and in said frame. A ar E i rivet ior otherwi e h ld to th Specification of Letters Batent. Patnted Aug, Application filed August 23, 1919. Serial No. 319,343

platefand has intermediate its ends two spaced upward projecting flanges, formed by doubling portions, of the plate upon itself, sald flanges receiving between them faces" ofthe bar which is bent U-shape, thus ,therail H of the rack. {N are brace brackets which are riveted or otherwise held to the plate,and adapted to bear againstthe outer securely holding the same from lateral bending. Each of said braces is peculiarly formed from a single piece, or blank, of

metal. The metal blank, intermediate its 3 ends, is slit transversely from opposite points on the sidesthereofland themetal of said blank from said slit portion to one end of the blank is turned upward on both sides,

I against each other. Eachbrace thus comprises abase portion and a lateral portion said upwardly turned flanges being bent inv a plane perpendicular to the base and affording a vertical 'end wall adapted to bear against the adjacent verticalflange of the UI-shaped portionof the bar E. i By theprovision of a 'deyice embodying the features'of my invention, itwill be noted that the rack may be held from sliding back and forthon the box of the wagon, and so arranged that the rack may be easily and quicklyremoved andreplaced when desired.

What I claim toIbe new is:

A. device for holding hay racks, consisting of a metallic plate having longitudinally extending parallel flanges, adapted to fitagainst the'side piece of a wagon frame,

'Imeans for securing said plate to the side piece of a wagon frame, a bar disposed upon and extending longitudinally of said plate and having intermediate its ends spaced upward extending flanges, and braces for preventing collapse of saidflanges, each of I said braces comprising a metallic strip slit transversely intermediate its ends, and having upward bent lateral, portions, bearing against the outer face of the: adjacent flange of the bar.

I In testimony whereof I hereuntoafiix my signature.

WILLIAM E. CRAWFORD. 

